Protest sparks Naples rioting
The centre of Naples was the scene of violent clashes between thousands of university and secondary school students, angry unemployed Neapolitans and police last week. What began as a relatively...
The centre of Naples was the scene of violent clashes between thousands of university and secondary school students, angry unemployed Neapolitans and police last week. What began as a relatively...
The University of Potsdam has introduced Germany's first master's degree in Jewish studies with special emphasis on Jewish-German history. The course opens just as racism has reared its ugly head...
University heads have warned the Irish government that they will be unable to cope with extra student numbers unless they get a lot more resources. They have expressed surprise at leaked projections...
The honeymoon period in further education is drawing to a close." Thus Roger Ward, chief executive of the College Employers' Forum last week. What honeymoon? If the past year has been a honeymoon for...
Higher education is under continuing pressure to change, to operate on reduced resources and to justify itself. The stresses on academic staff are well documented and are set to keep growing. It...
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Marx excoriated the philosophers of his day for merely...
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Arthur Marwick has (in the past) chided me and others...
The British Local History Room of the Institute of Historical Research is a book-lined oasis of peace and learning in central London. On a wet afternoon earlier this month a group of old-age...
Universities are the unsung heroes of the National Health Service. They work with it to provide all undergraduate medical education. They provide most of the research which the NHS will use to treat...
It is only a little more than ten years ago that British academics were lamenting the paucity of education policy studies in this country and contrasting this sorry state of affairs with the...
Terence Kealey (THES, November 18) would prefer that scientific research should return to some sort of 19th-century paradise in which private funding was available in abundance and which seethed with...
Igor Aleksander asks us to take seriously his argument concerning the problem of consciousness, by suspending "the deep contempt that many have for inanimate object" (THES, November 18). Although we...
P W. Anderson's bodice-ripping review (THES, November 4) of the Science Masters series cosmology books requires correction. Anderson says that inflation is "simply a phase transition of the vacuum"....
John Rear leads with his chin when he writes about managerialism and academic freedom in higher education (THES, October 21). He had realised that at the Council for Academic Autonomy he was being...
We are all familiar with what is happening to student grants. We are also told by the Government that higher education is already achieving the enrolment targets it set itself for the end of the...